Heads up! : early warning systems for climate, water and weather

By: Contributor(s): United Nations University Press, 2007Description: 228 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Contents:
1: Introduction - 2: Climate, water and wather related hazards - 3: Too much, too little - 4: Global warming - 5: Earth Hazards - 6: Concluding thoughts
Summary: The forces of nature can have damaging and deadly consequences for societies and ecosystems that stand in their path. Early warning systems offer one of the best defenses against the adverse effects of climate, water, weather and geologic hazards. But far too often this realization is made only after disaster strikes. Heads Up! provides a useful review of early warning systems in operation today, while exploring a range of hazards including hurricanes, heat waves, floods, droughts, tsunami, and volcanoes. With contributions from an international team of scientists, this practical handbook serves as a valuable contribution to our awareness and understanding of the role early warning systems play in disaster avoidance and reduction. Contents include: 1. Overview of Early Warning Systems 2. Climate-, water- and weather-related hazards 3. Hurricanes, severe winter storms, heat waves, tornadoes, air pollution 4. Floods and Droughts 5. Global Warming 6. Earth Hazards 7. Tsunamis, volcanoes, earthquakes, space weather
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BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Mesa Lab QC981.8 .C53 .G53 2007 1 Available 50583010321325
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1: Introduction - 2: Climate, water and wather related hazards - 3: Too much, too little - 4: Global warming - 5: Earth Hazards - 6: Concluding thoughts

The forces of nature can have damaging and deadly consequences for societies and ecosystems that stand in their path. Early warning systems offer one of the best defenses against the adverse effects of climate, water, weather and geologic hazards. But far too often this realization is made only after disaster strikes.

Heads Up! provides a useful review of early warning systems in operation today, while exploring a range of hazards including hurricanes, heat waves, floods, droughts, tsunami, and volcanoes. With contributions from an international team of scientists, this practical handbook serves as a valuable contribution to our awareness and understanding of the role early warning systems play in disaster avoidance and reduction.

Contents include:
1. Overview of Early Warning Systems
2. Climate-, water- and weather-related hazards
3. Hurricanes, severe winter storms, heat waves, tornadoes, air pollution
4. Floods and Droughts
5. Global Warming
6. Earth Hazards
7. Tsunamis, volcanoes, earthquakes, space weather

Contributors: Jennifer Boehnert, Thomas Bogdan, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia, Stanley Changnon, S.H.M. Fakruddin, Michael Glantz, Eve Gruntfest, Mary Hayden, Stefanie Herrmann, Ilan Kelman, Joanie Kleypas, Margaret LeMone, Michael McPhaden, Paulette Middleton, Rebecca Morss, Natural Resources Canada, Roger Pielke, Jr., Keven Trenberth, Qian Ye

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